A method of routing communication between nodes of a mesh network is provided. The method includes each node of the mesh network advertising a hop distance relative to a head of the mesh network, the hop distance being a measure of how many hops a node of the mesh network is from a head node of the mesh network, the head node being a node of the mesh network that controls all the other nodes of the mesh network.
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2. The method of claim 1, wherein the advertising, scanning, transmitting, and receiving is performed using Bluetooth protocol.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the initialization message further includes identification of all nearby nodes and the hop distance advertised by the node.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein if two or more of the one or more nearby nodes have the same advertised hop distance, selecting the routing node includes selecting a node of the two or more nearby nodes that was previously selected by the node.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein selecting the routing node includes selecting a node to be the routing node that advertises a reinitialization/configuration indicator that indicates a reinitialization and/or configuration status that is the same as the reinitialization and/or configuration status advertised by the node's reinitialization/configuration indicator.
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